On Sat, Jun 3, 2023 at 10:44 AM Arınç ÜNAL <arinc.u...@arinc9.com> wrote:
> I prefer to stay away from backporting features to older Linux versions. > The reasons being: > > - OpenWrt will eventually use a kernel version by default which will > have the feature. It doesn't satisfy me to do all that work just for > some OpenWrt devices to use this feature earlier. I would rather just > make OpenWrt use the kernel version that's already got the feature. I > already have some efforts to improve the current way to do this, I had a > presentation on Battlemesh v15 regarding this and more. > > - The backporting process can become messy, and the backported code is > prone to all sorts of possible issues. I don't want to debug any issues > either caused or possibly caused by backporting features. My sympathies. Coming to OpenWrt from the outside I was amazed by the amount of out-of-tree efforts. But people have their reasons, such as making hardware useful for a wider audience. I personally try to compromise a bit, I backport if it is easy and effortless, otherwise I wait, that works for me. Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel